WEBVTT 00:00:03.649 --> 00:00:07.220 Hello! Welcome back to another episode of Make Thrift Buy! And as always, this is the 00:00:07.220 --> 00:00:11.400 show where YOU send in items of clothing or accessories that you’ve seen on the internet, 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:15.579 and then I do my best to recreate them. Now a couple of people have challenged me to try 00:00:15.579 --> 00:00:20.609 and do ombre tights! I've actually owned a pair of these back in the day – but this 00:00:20.609 --> 00:00:27.199 was back in 2012, and, let’s be honest – most tights do NOT last for 4 whole years. Which 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:32.050 definitely makes spending $20-$50 on a pair of ombre tights – which is what I found 00:00:32.050 --> 00:00:35.610 these kind of tights online for – pretty prohibitive for most of us. 00:00:35.610 --> 00:00:38.130 So, I’m going to try and make some ombre tights for myself! 00:00:38.130 --> 00:00:39.140 Let's get started! 00:00:39.140 --> 00:00:41.840 Okay, the obvious things that I needed for this project were: 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:43.570 - Thick white tights - And dye. 00:00:43.570 --> 00:00:47.210 I’m using this Rit dye which is made for synthetic material, which is what you will 00:00:47.210 --> 00:00:48.750 need if you’re dying something like tights. 00:00:48.750 --> 00:00:52.900 Alright, so! Welcome to my kitchen, which is where I will be doing my dyeing. 00:00:52.900 --> 00:00:56.750 The first thing I did here was to rinse out any “finishes” from my tights by soaking 00:00:56.750 --> 00:00:59.400 them in cold water for about 5 minutes. 00:00:59.400 --> 00:01:02.610 Another thing that I’m going to need for dyeing the tights is a large, stainless steel 00:01:02.610 --> 00:01:06.290 pot. Now… I just wanted to cut in and say right now – check back in at the end with 00:01:06.290 --> 00:01:11.730 me about this; I don't think that it's a particularly good idea to use a pot that you're planning 00:01:11.730 --> 00:01:15.240 on using for cooking later on, but I'll go through that in a bit. 00:01:15.240 --> 00:01:19.909 Anyway, I filled the pot about 1/3rds with water, and I turned my stovetop on to a medium 00:01:19.909 --> 00:01:25.130 setting so that my water would heat up to around 75 degrees Celcius, or 167 Fahrenheit. 00:01:25.130 --> 00:01:29.850 I also put some gloves on so I wouldn’t dye my hands orange, but in retrospect, rubber 00:01:29.850 --> 00:01:33.600 washing-up gloves would be better than these so that you’re also protected from hot water 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:34.850 and potential burns. 00:01:34.850 --> 00:01:39.340 Now, you DON’T want your water to boil. I got the water in the pot up to about 75 00:01:39.340 --> 00:01:42.300 degrees Celcius, or 167 Fahrenheit. 00:01:42.300 --> 00:01:43.870 And now, the dyeing begins! 00:01:43.870 --> 00:01:49.340 So, with this dye you’re supposed to use about 1 bottle of dye per 2 pounds of fabric, 00:01:49.340 --> 00:01:55.100 I guess if you want a really strong colour. But I only want to dye half my tights; I also 00:01:55.100 --> 00:01:59.810 didn’t have scales... in the end I kind of figured out that I would need about 1/10th 00:01:59.810 --> 00:02:02.670 of a bottle for one pair of tights. 00:02:02.670 --> 00:02:05.490 And in this whole process, I'm not going to be particularly accurate - I'm just going 00:02:05.490 --> 00:02:07.510 to kind of eyeball it as I go. 00:02:07.510 --> 00:02:12.029 The first thing that I did was to put a really tiny amount of dye into my pot – so about 00:02:12.029 --> 00:02:15.290 a couple of spoonfulls – and then I mixed it around. 00:02:15.290 --> 00:02:20.139 Then, I took my soaking tights out of the sink, wrung out the water, and carefully plopped 00:02:20.139 --> 00:02:25.219 them into the pot for literally about 20 seconds. This will dye the entire tights a kinda pastel 00:02:25.219 --> 00:02:28.889 peach colour, which will hopefully make the ombre more subtle later on. While doing this, 00:02:28.889 --> 00:02:33.659 I held the top end out so that I didn't burn my hand, and I also tried to mix them around 00:02:33.659 --> 00:02:36.939 a bit so that the dye would get to every part of the tights. 00:02:38.260 --> 00:02:40.260 And then, I dumped them straight 00:02:40.260 --> 00:02:44.299 back into that cold water, rinsed the dye out, and then I wrung the water out. 00:02:44.299 --> 00:02:47.989 Then, I tipped quite a bit more dye into the pot, and I mixed it around. 00:02:47.989 --> 00:02:51.969 Now, here I’ve set up two pots. This pot will be for the half of the tights that I 00:02:51.969 --> 00:02:55.409 don't want to dye anymore, while this pot will be for the other half of the tights that 00:02:55.409 --> 00:02:59.799 I do want to dye a stronger colour. So I put the top half of the tights – the part that’s 00:02:59.799 --> 00:03:03.989 going to remain light-coloured, into this empty pot. Then, I carefully put the rest 00:03:03.989 --> 00:03:09.709 of the tights, from the toes up to about just under halfway, into the dyeing pot. 00:03:12.139 --> 00:03:15.659 Then, I carefully stirred the fabric around, to make sure that the dye is getting to all of 00:03:15.659 --> 00:03:16.790 the fabric! 00:03:16.790 --> 00:03:21.969 And then, after they were in for about 30 seconds, I pulled the tights out about 1 inch. 00:03:21.969 --> 00:03:27.760 Then, I stirred, waited another 30 seconds, pulled them out about 1 inch, stirred, waited 00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:30.749 30 seconds and pulled them out another inch. 00:03:30.749 --> 00:03:35.189 After doing this a few times, it’s time to add more dye to get a stronger orange as 00:03:35.189 --> 00:03:39.180 we move further down the tights to create that nice gradient ombre effect. 00:03:39.180 --> 00:03:45.099 So, I poured in a couple more tablespoons… or so?, stirred to mix the dye evenly, and 00:03:45.099 --> 00:03:49.499 then I immediately pulled the tights out one inch. Then, I stirred, and I waited about 00:03:49.499 --> 00:03:52.949 1 minute this time, and then I pulled them out yet another inch. 00:03:52.949 --> 00:03:57.709 Then, I poured in more dye, stirred, then left the tights to sit for about 30 seconds 00:03:57.709 --> 00:04:02.329 this time, pulled them out about an inch, and then finally, I left the very tips of 00:04:02.329 --> 00:04:05.069 the tights to soak for about five minutes. 00:04:05.069 --> 00:04:08.779 When the five minutes was up, I carefully removed the tights from the dye bath and brought 00:04:08.779 --> 00:04:10.459 them over to my stainless steel sink. 00:04:10.459 --> 00:04:14.970 In my sink, I immediately rinsed the tights with cool water. Now – this is important 00:04:14.970 --> 00:04:18.139 – I rinsed the tights with the coloured bit at the bottom and the lighter part at 00:04:18.139 --> 00:04:22.889 the top. I didn’t want the dye to run back up the tights into the lighter sections, so 00:04:22.889 --> 00:04:27.280 it’s important that I rinsed them this way! I stopped rinsing once the water running off 00:04:27.280 --> 00:04:28.509 the tights is clear. 00:04:28.509 --> 00:04:34.030 Then, according to the Rit Dye instructions, I needed to handwash the entire thing again 00:04:34.030 --> 00:04:39.479 using mild detergent in warm water. Then I rinsed them off again in cool water, and FINALLY, 00:04:39.479 --> 00:04:43.470 I let them dry, by hanging them up like this so that the dyed parts are at the bottom. 00:04:43.470 --> 00:04:48.430 Now, I had a bunch of dye left so I also decided to also try and refresh a scuzzy old pair 00:04:48.430 --> 00:04:54.009 of white tights that I have owned for years, and also, a pair of white knee-high socks! 00:04:54.009 --> 00:04:55.699 And with that, I was done! 00:04:55.699 --> 00:04:56.779 So, how did I go? 00:04:56.780 --> 00:04:58.960 [music plays] 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.580 So, that was it! My conclusion is: [scissor snipping sound effect] 00:05:35.580 --> 00:05:40.419 Alright – the issue of using a cooking pot to dye things. Now, I had googled this really 00:05:40.419 --> 00:05:45.419 briefly before starting the whole dyeing process and the Rit website themselves said that it 00:05:45.419 --> 00:05:50.830 was okay to use a cooking pot as long as you cleaned it really well with bleach afterwards, 00:05:50.830 --> 00:05:52.759 so I was like "great! Let's go then!" 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:57.900 It was only afterwards that I did some more googling and um – scared myself a little 00:05:57.900 --> 00:06:02.389 bit with stuff that other websites said – because lot of other websites said that you should 00:06:02.389 --> 00:06:04.590 NOT be using this pot again for cooking. 00:06:04.590 --> 00:06:10.979 So, you know, to be safe, probably don't use a pot that you plan to cook food in afterwards! 00:06:10.979 --> 00:06:12.669 That's my disclaimer. 00:06:12.669 --> 00:06:18.250 So yeah - I totally ruined our one good big cooking pot. Oops! 00:06:18.250 --> 00:06:25.229 This was the first time I ever used fabric dyes before and – apart from the whole ruining-my-good-cooking-pot 00:06:25.229 --> 00:06:27.879 thing – this was a really easy project! 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:32.469 The total cost of the first pair of tights came out to about $10, and the pair of tights 00:06:32.469 --> 00:06:36.629 and socks that I already owned even cheaper still – and after doing three pairs I still 00:06:36.629 --> 00:06:40.819 have about 2 thirds of this bottle left! And now, I pretty much want to dye everything 00:06:40.819 --> 00:06:44.900 ombre. What are some other synthetic materials that I'd be able to dye orange? If you think 00:06:44.900 --> 00:06:46.889 of any, let me know in the comments down below! 00:06:46.889 --> 00:06:49.819 And I now have a designated dyeing pot as well. Yay! 00:06:49.819 --> 00:06:53.550 Got a suggestion for a make thrift buy video? 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